good idea. you could even use steganographic techniques to hide the mp3's in the photos (check out outguess) - all those bad photos of your significant other are really there just to contain Bjork's latest in their lower bits.
size would become an issue. you could use compact flash - ibm has that nice gig microdrive though im not sure what cameras that can be used in.
Set up your main e-mail server to be Sparc Solaris running sun's sendmail, your secondary e-mail server as Alpha Linux running sendmail, and your tertiary e-mail server to be Intel OpenBSD running qmail.
No trivial task for the ISS people, but if they had 3 programming groups working on 3 implementations of the same communications code, but each for 3 different platform/OS's, your redundancy wouldn't be as restricted to software issues.
but there's also no off-shore drilling, no tanker spills, no strip mining, no pipelines, no explosive railray cars, no high-pressure vessels (aside from the boilers themselves)..
You have to get the Uranium from somewhere, generally it's mined out of the ground.
Most people freak at the thought of meltdowns and at the radioactive waste produced. We're already used to accepting the smog produced by Coal & oil plants, but radioactive disasters seem so utterly scary to the States, possibly as a result of years of Global Thermo Nuclear War fear?
His experience shows that a culture of harassment remains tolerated in many educational institutions; where kids can be taunted and bullied at will, sometimes into retaliatory statements or actions.
No, his experience shows a society which exists with a pack-mentality, in which the weak or the individual gets eaten by the Group - we have to realise that though we know that "You don't have to fuck people over to survive", that doesn't mean we don't fuck the little people over anyways.
This phenomena isn't unique to the Educational System, nor is it unique to the present age or to the US.
What do we do to stop this trend in schools? What do we do to stop this trend in society? What do we do to stop this trend in humanity?
Read the article. SETI doesn't get government funding.
Also, Teflon saves me about 15 minutes a day in ease of cleaning my dishes. Figure, my time is worth $50/hour, so that's $4562.5/year, or (considering 40 working years) $182500/lifetime. If I worked during the time that Teflon saves me, and i invested all the money when i make it, and then at the end of my life i donated that money to charity, then i would be donating a few million dollars. Multiply that by the percent of people who use teflon dishes, and you have a good donation.
so what about all machines that fall inbetween these categories?
i use my OpenBSD computer all workday for work related chores as well as personal webpage development, image manipulation, mp3 playing, etc.
at any given time a few other friends of mine are logged in, working on scripting, checking email, writing webpages, working on mysql, etc.
my webserver gets hit throughout the day/night from various anonymous sources.
while i consider my OpenBSD box to be primarily a desktop machine (since i use it for work, and mostly for personal use), it serves quite a few other people, both anonymously (web hits) and user-oriented (my friends w/ accounts). Granted, it isn't doing the serving our E-5000/Oracle servers are doing, but it is serving nonetheless, and desktoping all the while.
The problem is that you are starting out and most likely know very little about the environment you are working in, thus the tasks you can perform, or, more importantly, that the Company feels you can perform are menial.
But menial tasks need not be solely menial. Ask a lot of questions. find out why you are doing what you are doing, what happens next in the process, the reasons thing run the way they do. Let the Company know you are an inquisitive person who wants to learn. The powers that be will see this, and will eventually give you more responsibilities.
We have a high school student interning in our Unix department. I would love to be able to give him root and have him install upgrades, etc, on our servers, but, quite frankly he doesn't have the experience for me to trust him with such a task, and it's my ass if something goes Wrong.
Instead we must give him more menial tasks, and if he is self-motivated enough he will explore the boundaries and beyond of these menial tasks, and gather enough knowledge that we will trust him with more responsibilities.
The other problem is that while i would love to sit with him and show him all the ropes, i simply don't have the time; my job must get done too. Instead we show him one or two things to do, and let him go. Luckily he is self-motivated enough that he is also teaching himself perl on the way. We hope to have him complete one largish programming task before his Sentence is up.
If OpenSSH is forced to change their both their name and the name of the executable they produce, and all future versions are shipped as 'sosh' (Secure Open SHell?) or something other than 'ssh', how will this affect production systems that depend on the use of ssh?
I have scripts & users that depend on ssh being ssh and scp being scp on many of my systems. If i rename 'sosh' (or whatever) back to 'ssh', will i be fined for trademark infringement? If i do change the executable name, then users will continue to confuse the products. If i don't, then every script that references ssh will have to be changed.
Additionally, how does this affect the FreSSH Project and other ssh implementations which include ssh in their names? Have they too be served notices?
My work bought one of the PocketPC's. it's a nice novelty item - small and good-looking - but little else.
I encountered 2 problems with it-
1- It overheats. if you leave it turned on for a while, and then try to reboot, you're out of luck - you'll have to let it cool down for 15-20 minutes before you can power it up again. it just gets way too hot, and i don't see how the Espresso will be any different.
On a side note, can someone explain to me why it is that when it overheats it hangs on boot up? it seems strange that it works fine while running, but then at boot up it hangs - is it some bios check its doing?
2- size/shape is unwieldy. See the setup they have in the photo? where it's plugged into the computer? that's fine and all, but the cables are so thick compared to the pocketpc that you really need to brace the pocketpc down, or else it'll end up on the floor, like ours did. (though it is durable! a meter drop to the ground and it's still working!) And of course if you plan on bracing it down, keep in mind it needs lots of ventilation.
Otherwise, we haven't really found a use for it. sure it's small, but so is a laptop, and a laptop comes with a battery and pcmcia slots as well. I bet this thing would go nicely in your car as an mp3 player, but once summer comes around, it'll just overheat too much.
The title of the slashdot story implicates that the law has already been passed
How so? "Michigan May Outlaw Anonymity Online" where is the definiteness in this title? it says "may outlaw", not "Michigan is outlawing anonymmity".
you're right though, in your argument about contacting your reps. but since this is a state issue, everyone in Michigan should go to the Michigan State Government web page and fiugre out where their reps are.
switched networks are not necessarily any safer than networks based around hubs. check out dug song's dsniff package to see just how vulnerable switched networks can be.
anytime you communicate with anything other than yourself, the Trust issue comes into play.
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> Computers cannot predict what you want to do,
tab completion!
i understand (some of) the difficulties of trying to get a computer to 'know' what i want done - i've spent plenty of time at the bar discussing how best to implement some sort of fuzzy logic backed by neural net learning mechanism that will inherently understand that on mondays i prefer to create users accounts than to close help tickets, so everything i type will most likely be based around that. sure, tough as shit and will probably rm -r / every other command.
but then i go to open a file with a long filename, or to select a table with a distinct name, and tab completion saves me a few moments of typing/remembering exactly what that file is, or command is, or the exact path to that file.
this is the simplest way for the computer to 'guess' what i want, and it rocks. i think that if we continue to look for such simplistic methods of answering the tougher wants, we'll get further than always having our heads in the (current) dream-land of computer sentienty.
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i understand this guy has been influential in creating so much of what we base our graphical experience on, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's got anything on us now.
people need to continue to innovate. and i'mnot saying he hasn't, b/c i really don't know what he's done lately, but i'm saying that we need to remember that, as with stocks, past results do not necesarily indicate future growth.
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hiding the OS. i'm thinking that what he's wanting is not a removal of the OS, but a hiding of it. obviously an OS is a necessary tool, but is it also necessary for every user to see that tool?
the way we Work is an excercise in abstraction. we do not need to shift gears in our car, we need only knwo that we are driving, and the gears shift for us (though admitedly i can't drive an automatic, only shift for me). and if we had to readjust BIOS everytime we booted, that would become old quick.
just as the kernel is a layer of abstraction between us and the machine coe the processor, bus and devices need, and the OS is a layer of abstraction between us and the kernel, is there an easier way to abstract out the OS and leave us with just data and programs?
personally, i love the cli and can live and die with nothing more than that, but that doesn't mean there's no room in my mind for the exploration of other possibilities.
before we get all crazy about how Ridiculous it is to post a link to a 1+ Gig file in such a manner...
Has anyone actuallly seen this video???
Maybe it's Really Good!
i bet it includes the director's cut, comments from the award givers, alternative endings, and maybe even an interactive first person ceremony at the end!
i can't wait (the 2 hours it'll take) to see this!
i'm as excited with anticipation as when i stood in line 30+ days for Star Wars tickets!
it's not just the State of Slashdot. It's the state of part of the U.S. Culture. (sure, some of those postings above may have been from non-U.S. citizens, but for now i'll assume the majority were U.S. besides, i believe this applies to most of the Developed World)
Part of this reaction is apathy - who cares? that explosion happened so long ago. we're a culture of fast-paced flash and there have been plenty of explosions (OK, NY twin towers), a couple of wars (Gulf, Somalia, Yugoslaia), plenty of school shootings, and 14 Superbowls since that explosion. Who cares to remember one explosion?
part of it comes from a lack of a sense of history, and the way that history has built the world we currently live in. I've mentioned to a few people my pilgrimages to Trinity Site, NM (site of the first manmade atomic explosion) and how it's historically one of the most influential events to current history, only to receive confused looks. Same look i get when i tell people a day is special b/c it is the anniversary of D-Day, or Napoleon's defeat, or Genghis destroying Nineveh. We've little perspective.
Why have we such little perspective? it's nothing new, and in fact we probably have more perspective than most people have had throughout history since we have access to information from all around. And that's probably why we've still such little perspective - though we hae access to knowledge about so many Important Events, we don't really have the tools to sort through them.
in the past (a few thousand years ago), the Challenger explosion would have evolved into a Legend, a Myth, perhaps similar to Icarus's flight, and it's memory and message would have influenced our decision making for centuries to come. But now, what stories would stand out against the plethora of others? what Event that we know of is greater than all others? Pearl Harbor? The Kennedy Assassination? The Challenger Explosion?
Why should the Challenger explosion stand out so much more than all the others? Or, if it cannot, how do we give each event the respect that it deserves when there are so many to remember?
Disagree. CGI is a tool, just as a paintbrush is a tool, a camera is a tool, the Gimp is a tool, etc
CGI is no longer the same art, like photography is not the same art as painting, but CGI can still be Art, just as acting can.
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Drugs were introduced into our society...by people looking to escape.
isn't playing Quake an escape? isn't listening to the dead an escape?
Whether it's an escape or not is besides the point; whether there is a "higher meaning" to the buzz is also besides the point. More to the point is a comparison between the effects of drugs and the effects of these new technologies. It reminds of that quote - "any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" - can we safely s/magic/drugs/ ?
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or for on-the-fly translations. you could wear an "english" tag on your person, then the speakers aimed at you would only send you the english version, while your fellow spanish-speaking diplomat would wear a spanish tag and would get the spanish version broadcast at him.
as for weapons, maybe an ultrasonic version could be developed to guide attack dogs to a specific target in a crowd, similar to the way radar was used to guide German bombers in WWII. (though a single radar signal wasn't directional, the net effect of 2 or 3 signals was)
or an ultrasound version could be created as a tripwire (break the line-of-sound, alarm goes off)
consider some of the most common side-effects of popular illegal (in U.S.A. and most) drugs - they alter our perceptions, causing us to see things that aren't there, or hear things that aren't there - "the tree man, it's talking to me"
now a lot of these effects are being duplicated with technology, only they aren't altering the way our brain senses, they are actually creating pseudo-realities for us to exist in (was that ad on the soccer field really there, or was it digitally placed? did the guy sitting next to me see/hear the same ad?)
were drugs introduced into our society in order to prepare us for the emergence of technologies that would simulate heir same effect? imagine what the world would be like if we were suddenly introduced to a whole bunch of mind-bending technologies. Drugs (and the knowledge of the causes of such drugs, for those who don't partake) gives us the background to understand these technologies.
why even bother with one phone line? i've a cel phone and cable net access - no need of a phone line. other people i know have cel + DSL, still no phone line. works great!
personally, i'd never trust my security to my ISP anyways - do you know what kind of people work at some of these places?!? (no offense to anyone, my mom works at one, and i don't really want her seeing what i'm doing...) better to use your own forms of security (whether through VPNs, SSH tunneling, using freedom, etc)
How does the satellite distinguish between different uplinks from different customers?
i'd guess through a unique identifier in the packet header. time frames seems too limiting.
Bash (and most shells) does that - add aliases for key bindings and install apps/change your PATH to reach "embedded" languages or get new functionality. You can tweak the interface by changing PS1 or by using a different term.
Why not just create a GUI for beginners, and when they need new functionality they can realise why Unix has a command line?
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size would become an issue. you could use compact flash - ibm has that nice gig microdrive though im not sure what cameras that can be used in.
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Set up your main e-mail server to be Sparc Solaris running sun's sendmail, your secondary e-mail server as Alpha Linux running sendmail, and your tertiary e-mail server to be Intel OpenBSD running qmail.
No trivial task for the ISS people, but if they had 3 programming groups working on 3 implementations of the same communications code, but each for 3 different platform/OS's, your redundancy wouldn't be as restricted to software issues.
Going 3 times over budget isn't bad, is it?
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You have to get the Uranium from somewhere, generally it's mined out of the ground.
Most people freak at the thought of meltdowns and at the radioactive waste produced. We're already used to accepting the smog produced by Coal & oil plants, but radioactive disasters seem so utterly scary to the States, possibly as a result of years of Global Thermo Nuclear War fear?
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come on people, if you really wanna bash the USA, take it where it belongs:
alt.nuke.the.usa
doesn't anyone do newsgroups anymore?
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No, his experience shows a society which exists with a pack-mentality, in which the weak or the individual gets eaten by the Group - we have to realise that though we know that "You don't have to fuck people over to survive", that doesn't mean we don't fuck the little people over anyways.
This phenomena isn't unique to the Educational System, nor is it unique to the present age or to the US.
What do we do to stop this trend in schools? What do we do to stop this trend in society? What do we do to stop this trend in humanity?
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Also, Teflon saves me about 15 minutes a day in ease of cleaning my dishes. Figure, my time is worth $50/hour, so that's $4562.5/year, or (considering 40 working years) $182500/lifetime. If I worked during the time that Teflon saves me, and i invested all the money when i make it, and then at the end of my life i donated that money to charity, then i would be donating a few million dollars. Multiply that by the percent of people who use teflon dishes, and you have a good donation.
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Didn't you know we're working towards opensourcing the English language?
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i use my OpenBSD computer all workday for work related chores as well as personal webpage development, image manipulation, mp3 playing, etc.
at any given time a few other friends of mine are logged in, working on scripting, checking email, writing webpages, working on mysql, etc.
my webserver gets hit throughout the day/night from various anonymous sources.
while i consider my OpenBSD box to be primarily a desktop machine (since i use it for work, and mostly for personal use), it serves quite a few other people, both anonymously (web hits) and user-oriented (my friends w/ accounts). Granted, it isn't doing the serving our E-5000/Oracle servers are doing, but it is serving nonetheless, and desktoping all the while.
so: desktop? server? both?
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But menial tasks need not be solely menial. Ask a lot of questions. find out why you are doing what you are doing, what happens next in the process, the reasons thing run the way they do. Let the Company know you are an inquisitive person who wants to learn. The powers that be will see this, and will eventually give you more responsibilities.
We have a high school student interning in our Unix department. I would love to be able to give him root and have him install upgrades, etc, on our servers, but, quite frankly he doesn't have the experience for me to trust him with such a task, and it's my ass if something goes Wrong.
Instead we must give him more menial tasks, and if he is self-motivated enough he will explore the boundaries and beyond of these menial tasks, and gather enough knowledge that we will trust him with more responsibilities.
The other problem is that while i would love to sit with him and show him all the ropes, i simply don't have the time; my job must get done too. Instead we show him one or two things to do, and let him go. Luckily he is self-motivated enough that he is also teaching himself perl on the way. We hope to have him complete one largish programming task before his Sentence is up.
-f
I have scripts & users that depend on ssh being ssh and scp being scp on many of my systems. If i rename 'sosh' (or whatever) back to 'ssh', will i be fined for trademark infringement? If i do change the executable name, then users will continue to confuse the products. If i don't, then every script that references ssh will have to be changed.
Additionally, how does this affect the FreSSH Project and other ssh implementations which include ssh in their names? Have they too be served notices?
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I encountered 2 problems with it-
1- It overheats. if you leave it turned on for a while, and then try to reboot, you're out of luck - you'll have to let it cool down for 15-20 minutes before you can power it up again. it just gets way too hot, and i don't see how the Espresso will be any different.
On a side note, can someone explain to me why it is that when it overheats it hangs on boot up? it seems strange that it works fine while running, but then at boot up it hangs - is it some bios check its doing?
2- size/shape is unwieldy. See the setup they have in the photo? where it's plugged into the computer? that's fine and all, but the cables are so thick compared to the pocketpc that you really need to brace the pocketpc down, or else it'll end up on the floor, like ours did. (though it is durable! a meter drop to the ground and it's still working!) And of course if you plan on bracing it down, keep in mind it needs lots of ventilation.
Otherwise, we haven't really found a use for it. sure it's small, but so is a laptop, and a laptop comes with a battery and pcmcia slots as well. I bet this thing would go nicely in your car as an mp3 player, but once summer comes around, it'll just overheat too much.
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How so? "Michigan May Outlaw Anonymity Online" where is the definiteness in this title? it says "may outlaw", not "Michigan is outlawing anonymmity".
you're right though, in your argument about contacting your reps. but since this is a state issue, everyone in Michigan should go to the Michigan State Government web page and fiugre out where their reps are.
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anytime you communicate with anything other than yourself, the Trust issue comes into play.
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why should Theo care about anything other than OpenSSH? Should Linus be looking for windows vulnerabilities?
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> Computers cannot predict what you want to do,
tab completion!
i understand (some of) the difficulties of trying to get a computer to 'know' what i want done - i've spent plenty of time at the bar discussing how best to implement some sort of fuzzy logic backed by neural net learning mechanism that will inherently understand that on mondays i prefer to create users accounts than to close help tickets, so everything i type will most likely be based around that. sure, tough as shit and will probably rm -r / every other command.
but then i go to open a file with a long filename, or to select a table with a distinct name, and tab completion saves me a few moments of typing/remembering exactly what that file is, or command is, or the exact path to that file.
this is the simplest way for the computer to 'guess' what i want, and it rocks. i think that if we continue to look for such simplistic methods of answering the tougher wants, we'll get further than always having our heads in the (current) dream-land of computer sentienty.
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i understand this guy has been influential in creating so much of what we base our graphical experience on, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's got anything on us now.
people need to continue to innovate. and i'mnot saying he hasn't, b/c i really don't know what he's done lately, but i'm saying that we need to remember that, as with stocks, past results do not necesarily indicate future growth.
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hiding the OS. i'm thinking that what he's wanting is not a removal of the OS, but a hiding of it. obviously an OS is a necessary tool, but is it also necessary for every user to see that tool?
the way we Work is an excercise in abstraction. we do not need to shift gears in our car, we need only knwo that we are driving, and the gears shift for us (though admitedly i can't drive an automatic, only shift for me). and if we had to readjust BIOS everytime we booted, that would become old quick.
just as the kernel is a layer of abstraction between us and the machine coe the processor, bus and devices need, and the OS is a layer of abstraction between us and the kernel, is there an easier way to abstract out the OS and leave us with just data and programs?
personally, i love the cli and can live and die with nothing more than that, but that doesn't mean there's no room in my mind for the exploration of other possibilities.
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Has anyone actuallly seen this video???
Maybe it's Really Good!
i bet it includes the director's cut, comments from the award givers, alternative endings, and maybe even an interactive first person ceremony at the end!
i can't wait (the 2 hours it'll take) to see this! i'm as excited with anticipation as when i stood in line 30+ days for Star Wars tickets!
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`head -1 /var/mail/$USER`
depending on what format/OS you're using.
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Part of this reaction is apathy - who cares? that explosion happened so long ago. we're a culture of fast-paced flash and there have been plenty of explosions (OK, NY twin towers), a couple of wars (Gulf, Somalia, Yugoslaia), plenty of school shootings, and 14 Superbowls since that explosion. Who cares to remember one explosion?
part of it comes from a lack of a sense of history, and the way that history has built the world we currently live in. I've mentioned to a few people my pilgrimages to Trinity Site, NM (site of the first manmade atomic explosion) and how it's historically one of the most influential events to current history, only to receive confused looks. Same look i get when i tell people a day is special b/c it is the anniversary of D-Day, or Napoleon's defeat, or Genghis destroying Nineveh. We've little perspective.
Why have we such little perspective? it's nothing new, and in fact we probably have more perspective than most people have had throughout history since we have access to information from all around. And that's probably why we've still such little perspective - though we hae access to knowledge about so many Important Events, we don't really have the tools to sort through them.
in the past (a few thousand years ago), the Challenger explosion would have evolved into a Legend, a Myth, perhaps similar to Icarus's flight, and it's memory and message would have influenced our decision making for centuries to come. But now, what stories would stand out against the plethora of others? what Event that we know of is greater than all others? Pearl Harbor? The Kennedy Assassination? The Challenger Explosion?
Why should the Challenger explosion stand out so much more than all the others? Or, if it cannot, how do we give each event the respect that it deserves when there are so many to remember?
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Disagree. CGI is a tool, just as a paintbrush is a tool, a camera is a tool, the Gimp is a tool, etc
CGI is no longer the same art, like photography is not the same art as painting, but CGI can still be Art, just as acting can.
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isn't playing Quake an escape? isn't listening to the dead an escape?
Whether it's an escape or not is besides the point; whether there is a "higher meaning" to the buzz is also besides the point. More to the point is a comparison between the effects of drugs and the effects of these new technologies. It reminds of that quote - "any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" - can we safely s/magic/drugs/ ?
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as for weapons, maybe an ultrasonic version could be developed to guide attack dogs to a specific target in a crowd, similar to the way radar was used to guide German bombers in WWII. (though a single radar signal wasn't directional, the net effect of 2 or 3 signals was)
or an ultrasound version could be created as a tripwire (break the line-of-sound, alarm goes off)
should we be patenting before posting?
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now a lot of these effects are being duplicated with technology, only they aren't altering the way our brain senses, they are actually creating pseudo-realities for us to exist in (was that ad on the soccer field really there, or was it digitally placed? did the guy sitting next to me see/hear the same ad?)
were drugs introduced into our society in order to prepare us for the emergence of technologies that would simulate heir same effect? imagine what the world would be like if we were suddenly introduced to a whole bunch of mind-bending technologies. Drugs (and the knowledge of the causes of such drugs, for those who don't partake) gives us the background to understand these technologies.
just a thought
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why even bother with one phone line? i've a cel phone and cable net access - no need of a phone line. other people i know have cel + DSL, still no phone line. works great!
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personally, i'd never trust my security to my ISP anyways - do you know what kind of people work at some of these places?!? (no offense to anyone, my mom works at one, and i don't really want her seeing what i'm doing...) better to use your own forms of security (whether through VPNs, SSH tunneling, using freedom, etc)
How does the satellite distinguish between different uplinks from different customers?
i'd guess through a unique identifier in the packet header. time frames seems too limiting.
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Why not just create a GUI for beginners, and when they need new functionality they can realise why Unix has a command line?
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